Re: calendar & repeating events api
Re: calendar & repeating events api
- Subject: Re: calendar & repeating events api
- From: Jeff Kelley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:40:36 -0500
I would start by looking at EKRecurrenceRule <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/EventKit/Reference/EKRecurrenceRuleClassRef/index.html>.
Jeff Kelley
email@hidden | @SlaunchaMan <https://twitter.com/SlaunchaMan> | jeffkelley.org <http://jeffkelley.org/>
> On Feb 16, 2016, at 9:34 PM, Eric Gorr <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> When setting up a repeating event in Apple’s Calendar application, there is a lot of flexibility. For example, I can specify that an event repeats every month on the 5th Saturday. Of course, not every month has a fifth saturday, so for that month there is no event.
>
> What I am wondering is if there is direct api support for doing these date calculations…can I supply a set of parameters to a function and ask what the next 5th saturday of the month is?
>
> I can, of course, implement a naive algorithm which simply iterates through each day of the month, checks to see if it is the 5th Saturday encountered and return that date, but I am hoping I would not need to write something so tedious and prone to error. If there is a 3rd party library that would provide such support, I would be interested in learning about it as well.
>
> Thank you.
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